While The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, which is still very playable today , we definitely feel it's time for a next-gen Elder Scrolls game before too many years pass. However, Bethesda is focussing on releasing Starfield first, due out November , so we won't expect The Elder Scrolls 6 to arrive until at least late As such, there's not a lot of information around what to expect from the game, though we can indulge in some speculation.
With The Elder Scrolls 6 in the design stages of development , a release date is likely to be some way off. We'd predict it could be some several years or so before it launches. That's likely down to Starfield taking up the focus of Bethesda Game Studios, which is no bad thing as The Elder Scrolls 6 with use the Creation 2 engine that Bethesda's original sci-fi game is being built on.
So as much as the wait may be panful for Elder Scrolls fans, it gives Bethesda the scope to ensure that when The Elder Scrolls 6 launches, it could be spectacular and well-polished.
No game footage was released, nor did we learn any details beyond the game's basic title and a sweeping shot across some mountains. The music was a riff on the familiar theme that has been present in the last several Elder Scrolls games. Despite the scant information in the trailer, it has that uncanny ability to conjure up excitement among Elder Scrolls fans.
We still remember how the initial trailers for Skyrim set the pulses of open-world RPG fans racing. The next issue of Financial Post Top Stories will soon be in your inbox. We encountered an issue signing you up.
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Email Address There was an error, please provide a valid email address. After all, while Skyrim and Oblivion certainly made many fans on Sony machines, Xbox did previously have an exclusivity deal for Morrowind and has acquired Bethesda.
In that sense, the precedent has already been set to keep Elder Scrolls 6 on Xbox and PC, painting a coherent but depressing picture for the Sony faithful. Yes, there is, but it didn't reveal much. Bethesda released a short announcement teaser to rile up fans at E3 As that is all we have at this point, fans are eagerly awaiting the next trailer.
Almost assuredly not. With that in mind, it seems highly unlikely that ES6 , a game releasing several years after Starfield , would be made for last-gen hardware. On New Year's Eve , the official Elder Scrolls account posted a tweet saying, "Transcribe the past and map the future. Fans think the one not connected to the map could symbolize Starfield, while the last image focuses on Hammerfell. The resolution is reported via Gamasutra as being amicable and "mutually beneficial" for both parties but it remains confidential.
Photogrammetry technology will be used In that 25th anniversary panel which dashed the E3 dreams of so many, Bethesda did at the very least give fans a glimpse of some of the technology that will be used in the development of The Elder Scrolls 6. We got a peek at the use of photogrammetry which involves scanning real-life objects and environments to bring them into the game in detailed 3D.
The technology will make its first outing in Starfield before the latest iteration is used for Elder Scrolls. Elder Scrolls 6 goes official Bethesda is a busy studio: not only is it working on Starfield , it's also continuing to develop for Elder Scrolls Online and it's taking on the long commitment of Fallout And that's only in its main RPG franchises.
It's still got plenty going on elsewhere with mobile games, Dishonored, Prey and others. Thanks to Todd Howard, we know Bethesda is working on two huge new titles simultaneously, though their developments are staggered. Having returned to Skyrim after some time away, Howard compared it to seeing an old friend from high school, adding that the time away had given him the chance to see Skyrim as a gamer for the first time.
This, to us, would be the perfect time to start applying this new perspective to the next title in the series. Valenwood, Elsweyr and Black Marsh are the biggest places left to explore. However, even though these areas are prime spots for exploration, that's not to say that Bethesda won't return to areas from previous games. That said, if we're just going by where might be interesting to explore, Elsweyr would also be a candidate with its dry plains and harsh badlands that the Khajit call home.
It would certainly be nice to find out more about the culture of either the Khajit or the Argonians so both of these extremely different settings have an understandable appeal to fans.
The rumor that the game will be set here is based on a reported internal Bethesda memo from all the way back in Though it was initially believed to be a fake, Fallout: Nuka World ended up being a big DLC release for Fallout 4 which gave slightly more weight to rumor that Project Greenheart is in fact the codename for the next Elder Scrolls title.
The fact that Greenheart is a city in the verdant region of Valenwood made this even more interesting. However, after the brief announcement trailer for Elder Scrolls 6 was released during E3 , many fans began to move away from the idea of a Valenwood setting as the landscape shown in the trailer didn't reflect Valenwood all that much.
It's hard to tell from the short E3 clip we have of the game but since it was shown general opinion has started to move towards the idea that the Elder Scrolls 6 will be set in either Hammerfell or High Rock. Adding credence to the Hammerfell rumor is a post from the official Elder Scrolls Twitter account at the end of which says "transcribe the past and map the future" and shows an image with an unmapped Hammerfell region. There is, however, a chance that this teaser doesn't relate to Elder Scrolls 6 at all.
In an interview with Eurogamer , Todd Howard confirmed the team has settled on the location - but he won't tell us where yet. Details are, of course, exceptionally sparse at the moment. All we have are rumors to go off of, which doesn't form the basis of, well, anything really. Obviously, those of us who know the world of Tamriel thanks to Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim and yes, even Elder Scrolls Online, the entire world is a veritable expanse of different lands and settings where the game could be set.
We do know one thing for certain; wherever it does end up being set, we can expect to be fulfilling a great many side quests. Skyrim introduced the idea of designing and maintaining a homestead with its Hearthfire DLC, which Fallout 4 expanded upon with the introduction of its settlement mechanic and the Elder Scrolls online built upon again with its Homestead DLC.
This leads neatly into a further expansion of such features in the next Elder Scrolls title as it felt not-quite-finished in Fallout. It would be a feature that would actually fit in particularly well with the rumored Valenwood setting, if it involved the player adapting to the wilderness in the way the resident Bosmer have with their treetop cities.
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